Spinning by Tillie Walden

In shops (UK only) October 2024
400 pages  –  hardback  –  £22.99

9781910395950

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A competitive figure skater for twelve years, every day was the same for Tillie Walden. Sports, school, and family, with no chance for her to stop and think.
But when Tillie met her first girlfriend, it changed her whole life. She broke out of the reinforced sameness of a routine into a new relationship and a new interest in making art. She began to be sure her life should be different.

A poignant, honest autobiographical graphic novel about realising you can reinvent your life.

“It means a lot to us to be able to put out a new UK edition of Spinning by Tillie Walden. Most of you probably know that we discovered Tillie back when she was only 18 and we put out her first 3 books, The End Of Summer, I Love This Part and A City Inside. All of that material plus a lot of her short strips and webcomics were collected up by us a few years ago in the book Alone In Space. The big gap from that period was Spinning, which Tillie had been working on alongside these other works as her thesis at uni and was snapped up by First Second in the US. We missed out on the UK rights and the brilliant SelfMadeHero put out an edition instead.

We were delighted to now be able to pick up the rights and we decided to mark the this new UK edition by asking Tillie to draw a new cover, which she leaped at the opportunity of doing. We’d always seen Spinning as a little melancholy indie book about a young person starting to make their way in the world and figure out who they are, and we wanted to reflect that in the cover.

You can now have it on a shelf together with all of its sister Avery Hill books from that period of Tillie’s career; Alone In Space, Spinning and On A Sunbeam… I still think it’s one of the greatest bodies of work ever amassed by someone so young and such a brilliantly beautiful collective whole.”